The Real Quest of Life

|| Shri Sadguru Prasanna ||

The Real Quest of LIfe –

Learning is an ever green process. It’s a constant flow of knowledge between the disciple and the Teacher (Guru). And when the area of study is spirituality the disciple is known as “sadhak” and the teacher who is the knower and has experienced the true form of existence cannot be referred to as just a teacher (Guru). Such a teacher can only be referred as “Sat-Guru = Sadguru”. The prefix “Sat” denotes the one who is not bound by time, matter and place. One who is truly boundless.  Lucky are those who have experienced the company of such a teacher and have got a chance to understand the secrets of universe through HIM.

But are these secrets really secrets? The answer is No, they are the most obvious rules of existence.

But if they are most obvious then why cannot we see it, feel it and experience it? 
Answer to this goes like this: We all are born with a physical body with mental and emotional capabilities. These are the instruments given to us to experience “ Our Divine Form” -  “The Atma Swaroop” . But our instrument that we commonly call as our body and our soul has gone through millions and trillions of experiences which create wrong believes and make us incapable of seeing the obvious. These bundle of believes and experiences are known as “Dharanas”

In our life we struggle through these dharanas. It’s like a drop of ink in a clear water makes it colourfull. Slowly the water starts believing that it has a certain colour. Whereas the water in true form is colourless.  Similarly, we as human beings start collecting thoughts, ideas and forms that surrounding forces on us. Slowly we become extremely comfortable with it. And we define our comfort zones.

So very often motivational speakers use this term that one must move out of one’s comfort zone to achieve its full potential. This holds absolutely true in one’s journey on spiritual path as well. For a sadhak , ultimate aim is to experience her true form – “Atma Swaroop” ,  and comfort zone is all the Dharanas that she has gathered through her journey, not only through one life but through lives after lives. So how to break our Dharanas – or say come out of your comfort zone.

The solution is through three stages:  Identify and observe the Dharanas, start practicing being away from it and ultimately realize that we are much beyond it.

Though the process seems simple but it is absolutely difficult or say impossible without the guidance of a “SadGuru”.  

The result of not going through this process of learning and awakening is lots of miseries in lives that we very often see around.

One starts suffering from six diseases - “Shad Ripus “ – Kaam ( lust and desire), Krodh ( anger ), Lobh ( greed), Moh ( attachement), Mad ( Arrogance) and Matsar ( Jealousy).

And is thrown away from experiencing the true happiness (Anand ) of the Real Form “ Atma Swaroop” .

So the first quest in life is to find an able GURU “SadGURU” to guide you through. From there starts the journey of a sadhak.

|| Shri Sadguru Nath Maharaj Ki Jai ||

Choices Vs Circumstances……

A talk with old friend is a treasure for keeps. Recently I had some good time talking with old friends. Its an Ahhaa….. experience always. These are the talks which take you deep inside yourself. Friends turn out to be catalyst in our journey towards our Real Self.

Surprisingly, I had two such talks last week after a long long time with two of my dear oldies. The peculiar thing about both the talks is that it got focused around a topic Choice Vs Circumstances, as if the super power was delivering my lectures through these two bodies. What a learning experience!!!

I got treasure out of them. Now since its a treasure I must preserve it and this is how it goes….

We realized that C&C is a great concept to apply in our lives. As per this concept choice and circumstance are just two sides of the coin. And coin always has a value irrespective of the visible side.

Just like a coin is minted, The Dear Almighty keeps on minting values for us in form of events in our lives. Theses events are preplanned and well engineered and more than that very well executed by HIM to add value to our lives. To execute these events people around us are selected and given the task. People around us only follow the guidelines. The beauty is they are not aware that they are following an already written script.

Now its up to us to see those events as Choice or as Circumstance. When we take those events as our choices we are enjoying the minting process and we are the King of our lives and when we take ourselves as victims we are seeing it as a circumstance and there starts all the misery, we become poor victims and cry babies.

Now the question comes what is required to convert the life events to Choice ? And here came the answer from our deeper Self. The total acceptance of ourselves, the unconditional love for our self and the trust in the Almighty are the three ingredients of converting life events to choice. After all, who declares that we are victims? Its our mind that declares that we are victims.  A mind trained for a life of misery has this common symptom. So a mind which needs to be trained for life of a King is a positive mind which will reject the idea of circumstances and accept the idea of Choice.

We need to love ourselves to accept all our shortcomings. A loving self tells to oneself “You are my dear with all the pitfalls….don’t worry if you are not perfect. ‘I’ am perfect and ‘I’ will take you to that level of perfection”.

So my friends thanks to give me this philosophy of happy life……

# The above blog is written a year before. But starting my blog page with this one :)